Documentation: mention branches rather than heads
The "matching refs" semantics works only on matching branches these days. Instead of using "heads" which traditionally has been used more or less interchangeably with "refs", say "branch" explicitly here. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
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the remote repository.
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The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
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-directs git to push "matching" heads: for every head that exists on
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-the local side, the remote side is updated if a head of the same name
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+directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on
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+the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name
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already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode
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if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line
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nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below).